Opinion

For the last 18 years I have worked in conflict settings all around the world.

If reviving rural Kansas were a simple task, someone would have done it already.Sadly, rural areas throughout our nation have struggled for decades, as cities and suburbs grew and attracted talent.

While the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas, like elsewhere across the country, purported to support decency, the family and white supremacy, it was also a vehicle for attacking business rivals and members of the Catholic Church.

According to data published by the Pew Charitable Trusts, an affiliate of the Pew Research Center, Kansas ranks dead last in the country on the share of state revenue that comes from federal funds.Across the country, the percentage of state revenue from federal funds ranges from about a quarter to more than half of state revenue and according to Pew, a higher or lower percentage does not necessarily indicate a problem for state budgets.The highest and lowest ranked states vary greatly — and perhaps challenge some partisan stereotypes about federal spending.

Heads probably turned as we entered the early 1900s red brick town house in Warrenton, Virginia on a warm September morning.

In the nearly three months since law enforcement raided the Marion County Record, we’ve seen an abundance of news coverage and a handful of changes on the ground.Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody resigned after scrutiny of his career and actions around the search.

“For everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven ….” Some recognize this phrase from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible and others know it from the popular 1960s song by the Byrds.November is a season of Thanksgiving.

A few years back I learned that the Kansas City Public Library had acquired records of the Kansas City Stockyards beginning in 1890, about the time that the long drives of Texas longhorns to stockyards in the midwest were ending, I was delighted.